The SACM is committed to giving our students the best possible practical and professional experience towards their future careers. To this end, the SACM hosts weekly evening concerts at the Baxter Concert Hall. There are also several annual competitions where students compete for bursaries and prizes.
Laura Searle Prize for Piano Concerto Playing
Lionel Bowman Prize for the best performance of a work by Beethoven
James de Villiers Prize for the best performance of a Romantic work
Robert Andrews Prize for the best performance of a work composed in the last hundred years by a composer from the Southern Hemisphere
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Cone of Composition
Jan Royce Prize for Orchestral Composition
The Hendrik Hofmeyr Prize for the Performance of South African Music
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FoCTO Bursary Competition
David Aldred Memorial Prize for Sopranos
Aviva Pelham Operetta Competition
Neues Lied Art Song Duos Competition
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Schock Foundation Prize for Chamber Music
UCT Strings Competition
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